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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DarkKestral" data-source="post: 4427394" data-attributes="member: 40100">I was just about to mention Gaiman. Given that he's not only written some of the best modern fantasy in novel form, but some of the best in TV, comic, and movie form, he certainly should qualify, as his comics and scripts are also fairly readable. Plus, Good Omens is him and Pratchett combining their styles into one book that shows off the things they are individually good at while being something that is recognizably written by them together if you are familiar with both of their styles. Oh yeah, and it's an awesome parody of first The Omen film. American Gods is a great example of his work, and I'd recommend it, Stardust, or Mirrormask as starters, if only because American Gods is his best known novel, while Stardust and Mirrormask are excellent movies, and you can get a easy sense of his style, though Stardust the movie is a slightly inferior adaptation (though with DeNiro as a campy gay pirate captain, which is interesting) and Mirrormask is only in movie form. Neverwhere's also been done as another medium (it was a TV series first though) but as it likely a bit harder to find the DVDs, I'd skip it as the first. (It's interesting comparing American Gods to Neverwhere and Good Omens though, as he seems to really know how to make things feel more like what they are there. American Gods's fictional USA feels more American than the real world USA, and I wouldn't be surprised if Neverwhere and Good Omen's England feels more British than the real world England.)</blockquote>

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